[UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2016] While much progress has been made against malaria in the last decade, SBCC can be used to reach populations who remain at risk as transmission dynamics change. It can also be used to identify people with asymptomatic infections and monitor their compliance with treatment, as well as informing communities of optimal times for malaria control interventions.
Strong evidence suggests that quality social and behavior change communication (SBCC) can improve malaria prevention and treatment behaviors. As progress is made towards malaria elimination, SBCC becomes an even more important tool.*
*Koenker, Hannah, et al., Strategic roles for behaviour change communication in a changing malaria landscape. Malaria Journal
The purpose of these guidelines from the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) is to assist in the development, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs to influence behaviors and mobilize communities to create long term normative shifts towards desired behaviors and to sustain enabling behaviors around the four PMI interventions.
The primary goal of the President's Malaria Initiative (PMI) BCC M&E strategy is to support National Malaria Control Programs (NMCPs), in-country stakeholders, and PMI implementing partners in effectively monitoring and evaluating the quality of BCC activities and their impact on desired behavioral outcomes.
The goal of this guide is to provide a framework for guiding Malaria BCC actors and implementing partners in Tanzania for a well coordinated, and sustained quality communication for Malaria interventions.
The objectives of the guide are:
The fourth Liberia National Malaria Strategic Plan (NSP) for 2016–2020 addresses the need to scale-up malaria control and prevention activities to build on gains made under the Millennium Development Goals and to continue making progress under the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Malaria prevention hinges on individual, family and community actions, adaptation of prevention,control and treatment options provided by the Ministry of Health. Communities need to be provided with correct and consistent information on the disease in order for them to take up these options.
This strategic framework and implementation plan was created to guide malaria partners in the implementation of advocacy, communication (BCC) and social mobilisation (ACSM) interventions designed to support Nigeria's national malaria control efforts.
The first section of this document provides background information relevant to the strategic plan for malaria control in Lao PDR. It includes a brief country profile, the health system and an overview of malaria (covering epidemiology, history and the current situation).
The specific objectives for communication and advocacy are:
This Strategic Malaria Communication Guide was developed following an assessment that included in-depth interviews of key actors and a literature review that led to the definition of key focus areas and recommended communication tactics that National
This is the national strategy for malaria communication for Madagascar.
The plan consists of the following elements:
The communication plan aims to guide Guinea's Malaria Control Program and partners to plan and oversee the implementation of communication activities in the framework of the fight against malaria in Guinea by the standards of the World Health Organization ( WHO).
It revolves around two objectives:
The performance review of the implementation of interventions against malaria in Burkina Faso during the period 2002 to 2010 showed significant progress in the fight against malaria across the country.
This proposed communication strategy intends to increase and sustain malaria prevention and treatment seeking behaviors among identified at-risk groups in particular and raise awareness of malaria prevention throughout the country.
On January 23, 2015 members of Nigeria's National Malaria Elimination Program (NMEP) and its Advocacy, Communication and Social Mobilisation Committee (ACSM) met with partners to collectively finalize a harmonized malaria social and behavior change communication (SBCC) strategy.
Developed in 2011, this is an SBCC strategy for community-level programs in behavior change related to TB, malaria and HIV prevention.
This document serves as an example of a communication strategy for prevention and control of malaria in pregnancy. It covers background about malaria in pregnancy, walks the reader through the strategy design process, points out where malaria can be integrated into a communication strategy, and lists priority problems.
The goal of this Strategic Plan is the scaling up for impact to reduce by 50% malaria associated morbidity and mortality from the 2002 baseline by 2015.
The specific goals are:
The strategy outlines eight components to address gaps in eight areas: knowledge, guidelines, messages and materials, utilization of existing channels, personnel and skills, monitoring and supervision, translating program lessons into action, and overall coordination and synergy within and beyond the Ministry of Public Health.
This strategic framework and implementation plan was created to guide malaria partners in the implementation of advocacy, communication (BCC) and social mobilisation (ACSM) interventions designed to support Nigeria's national malaria control efforts.
This Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) Communication Strategy is a complement to the Communication Strategy for Malaria Control in Uganda 2005-2010. The strategy prioritizes the following communication problems and challenges for IRS communication, which are:
This strategy has four priority intervention strategies which include case management, control of malaria in pregnancy through Intermittent Preventive Treatment (IPT), Integrated vector Control, and Community Involvement and Participation.
This strategy is based on associations between research on the behavior, anthropology, sociology, social marketing, public relations, education and entertainment, popular drama and interpersonal communication.
The purpose of this document is to serve as a framework for all actors involved in malaria communication in Senegal. This strategy a
The elements of this strategy include the following:
The National Malaria Control Program of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare of Equatorial Guinea is implementing an ambitious, comprehensive strategy with the goal of drastically reducing the transmission of malaria throughout the country.
The ARM3 Behavior Change Communication (BCC) strategy aims to support the National Strategic Plan by contributing to the development, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of NMCP initiatives to influence behaviors and mobilize communities to create long-term normative shifts toward desired behaviors and to sustain enabling behaviors around
This is the communication strategy for the Malaria Control Program in Mali.
The strategy includes
The elements of this strategy include the following:
This strategic framework and implementation plan was created to guide malaria partners in the implementation of advocacy, communication (BCC) and social mobilisation (ACSM) interventions designed to support Nigeria's national malaria control efforts.
This strategy is part of the Rwandan national initiative intending to significantly reduce malaria morbidity and mortality. The program has behavior change at its foundation, and it requires people to adopt the necessary behaviors to achieve malaria pre-elimination. In order to carry out this work, massive community mobilization is required.
The purpose of this document is to serve as a framework for all actors involved in malaria communication in Senegal. This strategy a
This communication strategy has been developed, to support the two main/core strategies, that were identified in the National Malaria Medium Term Strategic Plan 2008-2013 (MMTSP).
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